Land transformations in Hanyang city of Wuhan in Central China 2001-2011

Using the case of Hanyang, this paper provides new evidence of land transformation in China. Together with massive non-urban to urban land transformations, there is an increasing proportion of land being converted from urban to non-urban uses. The results of exploratory spatial data analysis demonstrate significant differences in their spatial distributions and clustering. It reveals that both ways of land transformations are being driven by the large-scale investment made by the public sectors and a growing private sector.